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7
AN OPTICAL ILLUSION.
f
Shipwrecked Crew Lived on
Rope For Sixteen Days.
e f the T rick . Performed by the
Pskere ef India.
The menus upon which wrecked
The fakers o f India perform some
or castaway people have sustained remarkable tricks. The following
life for a considerable time are ex­ one was witnessed and thus describ­
traordinary. With a small quantity ed by an Englishman who was him­
o f water and nothing more nouriah- self an excellent prestidigitateur :
ing than boot«, tarred rope or sea­
The apartment being filled, the
weed men have been known to ana-
magicians began their performance.
tain life for weeks without loeing
The audience set on the floor about
any great amount o f flesh.
Perhaps the scantiest diet upon the fakers, so that they had no way
which human beings ever kept alive of concealing themselves or o f hid­
was the daily menu o f Windover’s ing anything. At their request I
survivors, who were cast upon the examined them and satisfied myself
Irish coast near Kilsegg.
that they had nothing about them.
They lived for sixteen days on Then one o f the women stepped
stewed rope yarn, without a crumb into the inclosure, the rest remain­
o f anything to help digest it except ing behind the spectators, who
water, and, though it made them ill, formed a close ring about them.
they kept alive on it and did not The light was now turned down a
waste away very much.
little, and in a moment the wom­
This vessel was a bark carrying an’s face began to be illuminated
salt from Spain to the United by a ghostly light that extended
States, with an English crew, and quickly over her entire body.
she was dismasted and abandoned
She the* began to move around
about 1,000 miles out on the Atlan­ and around, uttering a low, mur-
tic. Three o f the crew were killed muring sound the while, gradually
by falling masts, and two others quickening the pace until she was
were washed overboard. Bnt the whirline about like a top. A mo­
other seven took the whaleboat and ment o f this, and the light that had
set oat fo r the shore.
du n g about her seemed to be whirl­
They took too little food, but ed off by centrifugal force and as­
three large butts o f water, besides sumed a pillarlike form beside her.
the tank the boat already held. The As soon as this was accomplished
result was they ate up their pro­ she stopped, turned and began to
visions in four days, but had water mold the light with her hand, and,
enough for a month, and after though I could distinctly see her
starving two days more they tried hands move through the light as if
boiling lengths o f tarred hemp rope it.were a cloud, it began to assume
into a pulp and swallowing it.
human form. We saw the arms,
They had a keg o f parffin wax, hands and legs all molded and final­
and, thoqgh it made them ill at ly the face and headgear. She next
first, they eventually contrived to allied for a light, and, the candles
live on the boiled hemp, the tar, being relighted, there stood an ut­
boiled to a jelly, adding to the nour­ ter stranger, a native seemingly,
ishment o f the rope.
evolved out o f cloudland. He step­
There is another instance o f sus­ ped forward and grasped me by the
taining life on next to nothing hand. His hands were moist, as if
which nappened on a small ialand with perspiration, and he was a
off the Irish coast, Tw o men land­ very healthy spirit.
ed there in a small boat, which waa
After he had talked and drunk a
dashed to bits on the rocks when glass of arrack he took his place be­
they made an effort to relaunch her side the woman again and began to
for the return trip. They were en­ whirl about. The lights were dim­
tirely without food, and the ialand med, but not so that we could not
was bare and rocky, with the thin­ see, and in a few minutes the figure
nest possible layer o f soil.
began to fade, soon assuming the
Fortunately there was a spring, appearance o f a pillar or form o f
on the island, but nothing in the light and then attaching itself to
way o f food but gulls, which they the woman and seemingly being ab­
could not catch, and nothing to sorbed by her. All this was done in
make a fire with as a distress signal. a very short space o f time before
There are not even any shellfish, the eyes o f at least fifty people and
as there is no beach, and the pair not ten feet from myself. The girl
had to subsist for the ten days on appeared greatly exhausted after­
the cold, raw seaweed washed np by ward.
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the tide. For two days they starved,
hat after that they taekled the sea­
Willie’. Deg Story.
weed, making three meals a day of
William is seven years old and
it until rescued.
has already developed what his fond
The favorite o f all starvation del­ father calls “ the author bug.” His
icacies, if we are to judge from the governess read several dog stories
frequency o f its appearance on star- to him lately, w
which impressed him
vstion bills o f fare, is a pair o f sea ao deeply that he tried his baby
boots, bat, though it is hard for a hand at what he called “ the story
well fed person to imagine how life o f a St. Bernard dog,” in which the
can be sustained on such fare, there little fellow relates, among other
are many instances where they, with things, this startling incident in
a little water, have kept a man alive large and well formed letters: “ One
for a fortnight. Of course no teeth day he went out to walk with his
can tear cowhide boots— they have mistress. A wind came up so strong
to be cut up and ahredded with a that it could lift a wagon. The
knife and the shreds chewed and wind took up his mistress, and she
•wallowed.
was very much scared. All the peo­
A few ounces o f leather, being so ple came out o f their houses, and
hard to digest, stays the stomach when they saw his mistress they
for fifteen or twenty hours.
were scared, too, for she fell into s
Barnacles as a diet is the best snowbank and began to sink. The
known and most useful to unfortu­ dog jumped in to see if he could
nate castaways. Three Englishmen save her, but he could not. The
and a crew o f Lascars, who had woman kept on sinking and sink­
been forced to abandon the sailing ing all the time, and the dog was
vessel North Star, kept themselves very sad. So were all the other peo­
going for over a week on barnacles, ple. When the spring came and the
and only two o f the crew died.
snow was gone she was found, but
The worst o f them is that they she waa dead.” — Exchange.
give one internal crampe and cause
Snake Plash.
an insufferable thirst, but they do
nourish thé frame.— Stray Stories.
Many African tribes count snake
flesh among the delicacies, and
W atch and Pray.
John Ward says that with the Aus­
The first Orantully Castle was tralian natives “ a dish of snakes is
launched in 1879. The following a much esteemed luxury.” Many
year she cruised round the British kinds o f birds eat snakes. Pigs are
isles with the late Sir Donald Cur­ particularly fond o f them, as also
rie, founder o f the Castle line, and are some deer. But in the old days
|W. E. Gladstone on board.
Sir it was understood that deer only ate
Donald conceived the idea of pray- snake* in summer, for which reason
e n in the good old fashioned Scot­ their venison was at that time
tish style, and to make the service poisonous, a sagacious fiction which
as impressive as possible be sent a it was doubtless well to make wide­
messenger to the captain and offi­ ly known in times when there was
cers the first Sunday morning to abundant temptation to deer steal­
come down to prayers. The captain ing and regulations concerning
was on the bridge at the time and close seasons would have been treat­
found a pretty stiff wind blowing. ed with indifferent respect. — Ex­
“ Tell Mr. Currie,” he said to the change. ________________
cabin boy, “ that I will watch if he
The Teachable Deg.
will pray.” — London Tit-Bits.
An interesting fact about the
Hit Duty.
training o f wild animals was told to
One day a clerical friend who had me by a man (I forget his name)
consumed an hour o f valuable time who exhibited some performing
in small talk said to James Harper, Russian wolves at the Westminster
;he New York publisher, “ Brother aquarium. He said that about one
ITsrper, I am curious to know how wolf in eight could be trained. His
;rou four men distribute the duties method did not consist in bullying
o f the publishing house between gnd hurting the wolves, but in re­
you.”
“ John,” said Mr. Harper warding them by food. He said
rood humoredly, “ attends to the that on the average seven out of
lnances, Wesley to the correspond­ eight showed no capacity for learn­
ence, Fletcher to the general bar­ ing and were rejected (killed) by
gaining with authors and others, him after sufficient testing. The
and— don’t you tell anybody,” be teachable dog is the reeult o f e se­
said, drawing his chair still closer lection by primitive man o f the one
and lowering the tone« o f hit voice in eight. — Sir Ray Lank ester in
Loudon Telegraph.
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